But overall, education and care provided to young people is "better than ever", with around 90% of primary schools and 79% of secondaries rated good or outstanding, the report said.

The quality of early years providers has also improved, with 94% judged to be good or outstanding compared with 74% in 2012.

Around 90% of primary schools are rated good or outstanding. Credit: PA

Unstable leadership, high staff turnover and struggles to recruit teachers were noted as shared characteristics between under-achieving schools, while many have high proportions of pupils from deprived areas.

On the issue of tackling inequalities faced by disadvantaged pupils, Education Secretary Justine Greening said what is needed is "equality of opportunity".

"It's a long-term entrenched challenge that we face but we'll only fix it by working differently."

The Education Secretary said 'entrenched' challenges need to be addressed. Credit: PA

"We've got a record amount of money going into our education system the challenge is more how we have the right strategy to lift up those communities and those young people who have been left behind by rising standards over recent years," Ms Greening said.

She added: "We should all now work together to see what's it going to take to change those young people's outcome."

The Government's social mobility policies have been accused of failing. Credit: PA

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said it was "not enough" for the Government to focus on geographical areas regarded as having fallen behind in terms of social mobility.

She told the BBC's Today programme: "Some of our most vulnerable children ... have been failed by this Government's policies."

"Just dealing with the opportunity areas is not enough. Ofsted is quite clear that it is not about areas in particular, it's schools that are still not able to raise their standards and raise their game."

She added that schools were struggling with policies, which had created problems with teachers' pay and recruitment while driving up their workload.

School standards minister Nick Gibb said: "The report recognises the widespread good practice and continual improvement across the system but we know there is more to do to tackle consistent under-performance.

He added: "Having excellent teachers in our most challenging schools is also key to school improvement, which is why we're investing £75 million in teachers' professional development and announced a further £42 million for training in the Budget."

Here is a list of the 135 schools that have failed to record a "good" Ofsted inspection since 2005: